The two now attend boarding school and have an ongoing feud based on socioeconomic status, cultural beliefs and competition. Hamilton Bates and Gwendolyn Adams, worst couple names ever, are high school enemies who were once friends in grade school. This story offered some beauty about the human condition, despite the fact that it is packaged in a ridiculous prep school with a ridiculous mascot among the ridiculously wealthy. I can’t say that I didn’t skip whole chapters -especially near the end-because I just don’t need to go through the emotional torture-and-balm these stories ultimately offer. A lovely portrait of falling in love without being interrupted by the banal convention that demands virginity from its heroines. Having said all of that, I must admit two things: one, chapter 21 brought me to actual tears (what? This wizened, hardened heart?). This book does a great job of creating a stage for that. It’s ok to suspend disbelief and experience the fury and rewards of lives on the precipice of becoming. I think even the characters know this certainly, the authors do. It’s not surprising that these stories are populated by rich kids, though the problems of the privileged are always a bit hard to stomach. And the budding awareness of power dynamics as they are stacked by economic class, education, and gender. Because-well, high school is the time for such great drama and possibility.

I know a lot about the American coming of age high school trope (especially female protagonists), and -yes-it involves romance. I really like this writing duo (the lords/dukes series they penned-brilliant and hot). Is this love? Or, has the devil found a new plaything?ĭevil May Care is the gripping, angsty, enemies-to-lovers, bully romance by USA Today best-selling author Angel Lawson you’ve been waiting for! He’s the lead devil, and my hatred for him is all in the details.Īll it takes is one slip, one heated argument, one mistake, and everything gets even more complicated. Handsome, smart, and ridiculously privileged. And I know who’s in charge - Hamilton Bates. No one ever speaks about what happened to Skylar again, and no one gets punished.īut that's not exactly true, is it? I still get punished, each and every day that I walk down the halls. I’m sticking around to make sure they follow through on the deal the snobby, elite crew of jocks made with the administration.

They wanted me to leave, too, but I refused. The Preston Prep Devils made that clear after the incident that forced my sister Skylar to leave our academy. What happens when the whole school finds out their secret? Everyone knows Gwendolyn and Hamilton are enemies.

Trick me twice by becca steele